to noon, Saturday, April 29, at Historic Linden Grove Cemetery & Arboretum, 401 W. The event is sponsored by the Covington Urban Forestry Board and the City’s Urban Forestry Division. “This is really a fun event, and you can see the benefits for years to come as these trees grow up and spread out,” Moore said. Refreshments will be provided by Keep Covington Beautiful. Volunteers should wear old clothes and boots or heavy shoes, and bring tools and gloves if they have them. Species will include Serviceberry, Persian Ironwood, hackberry, and Black Gum – the latter two trees only where there aren’t power lines overhead. Volunteers will plant about 40 trees along Decoursey Avenue and 39 th Street, Moore said. in the back parking lot of Latonia Elementary School, 3901 Huntington Ave. “This community values its trees and green spaces, and we will see that passion over the next two Saturdays.” “The various Tree City honors recognize Covington’s significant investment in its tree canopy as a way to improve the health and aesthetics of the community,” Moore said. cities received last year, and no others in Kentucky, Urban Forester Patrick Moore said.

Meanwhile, the national Arbor Day Foundation has named Covington a Tree City USA for the 19 th year in a row and gave it a Tree City Growth Award for the seventh year in a row.Ĭovington is awaiting word on whether it will again be named a Tree City of the World, a designation only 37 U.S. – The celebration of Arbor Day will last eight days in the City of Covington, beginning with a neighborhood planting this Saturday and ending the following weekend with a seedling giveaway at a de facto festival focused on trees. Volunteers needed Saturday to dig holes in LatoniaĬOVINGTON, Ky.

Tree seedlings for arbor day